Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers colours are red, green, grey and brown. A grasshopper is around 2.5cm long. Grasshoppers body parts are head, abdomen, mouth parts and thorax. Grasshoppers also use their jumping to give themselves a boost when flying.

Grasshoppers are in every continent except Antartica. They live in grassy places with low plants. Grasshoppers legs are special because they are strong and they help it to get away from predators.

A grasshopper has a 3-stage life cycle. The first stage is an egg. The grasshoppers lays their egg in a hole in the ground for protection. The second stage is the nymph. The nymph looks like an adult but it has no wings. They shed their skin several times and after they shed for the last time they grow wings and are an adult.

Grasshoppers predators are bird, spiders, rodents and ground beetles. Grasshoppers eat leaves, corn, wheat, barely, alfalfa and small bugs such as flies, sandflies and fleas.

A Grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of it's own body. Grasshoppers do not jump they use their legs as a catapults. It can also eat 16 times it's own weight. Grasshoppers who gather in large swarms and can destroy fields of crops.

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